Kunsthall 3,14
Dare To Hear a Podcast Series
Dare to hear? Kunsthall 3,14’s own podcast disrupts the airwaves, one unfiltered guest at a time. In the series, our debate editor Gitte Sætre dives deep into urgent themes explored in our exhibitions and live program, together with artists and relevant experts. Art and thought collide through radical formats – tune in on Spotify!
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Gitte Sætre, in her role as debate editor, leads the institution’s extended outreach and discursive program. Her work centres on deepening and unfolding the themes of the curated exhibition programme: What concerns animate artists working today within the language of contemporary art? Where does the visual arts field intersect with, and diverge from, disciplines such as design, literature, theatre, and architecture?
Alongside her position at Kunsthall 3,14, Sætre maintains an active artistic practice rooted in painting, operating within an expanded field of aesthetic thinking and production.
EPISODE 11: 2026
What happens when art confronts the ecological paradoxes of our time?
In this episode, we explore decoupling, speculative futures, and material storytelling, inspired by Fanja Bouts’ exhibition at Kunsthall 3,14. Together with Jannecke Knudsen Heien, we discuss how art can both critique unsustainable systems and imagine alternatives, often in dialogue with research and policy. Both artists share a strong interest in temporal imaginaries.
Palestinian artist, producer and curator Motaz Al Habbash, based in Norway, joins Gitte Sætre to reflect on memory, displacement, and everyday life under political pressure. They discuss the film Donkey of 7th of October, the role of artists in times of conflict, and what it means to live and work in diaspora, also touching on Motaz’s recent stay in Egypt and how artistic perspectives can open space for reflection within complex political realities.
EPISODE 10: 2025
EPISODE 9: 2025
How do we encounter art?
By attuning to the voice, language can open into something beyond meaning, a space where its energy and resonance can be felt. In this episode, Gitte Sætre speaks with writer Gunnar Wærness about the themes explored in Samuel Brzeski’s exhibition Infernal Monologue at Kunsthall 3,14.
EPISODE 8: 2025
A recorded conversation on language, art, and existence, set within Samuel Brzeski’s exhibition Infernal Monologue at Kunsthall 3,14 (2025). With Idun Vik and “10 kilos of clay” as guests, the discussion explores what happens when linguistic structures begin to dissolve, and how language shapes our experience of reality. The aim was to deepen the exhibition’s themes, focusing on how sound and visual elements evoke mood, affect, and sensory impressions.
EPISODE 4: 2023
EPISODE 5: 2024
In conversation with the Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen. The Chicken Man and his very special artistic practice involving living animals, several farms and scientists exploring biological and cultural diversity. How fare can we go in manipulation?
EPISODE 6: 2024
In the preparations leading up to the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Kunsthall 3,14, the first director, Bjørn Inge Follevaag, talks about the formation of a contemporary art institution that embraced the exchange of world cultures and dared to recognise social and cultural blind spots beyond the Western discourse, before anyone else saw their value.
EPISODE 7: 2024
A recording of a panel discussion at The University Museum between artist Koen Vanmechelen, paleontology professor Hanneke Meijer, and anthropologist Karin Lillevold from the University of Bergen. Moderated by Gitte Sætre, debate editor at Kunsthall 3,14.
A punk sound collage in collaboration with the American artist and researcher Benjamin Gerdes and the bicycle director of the City of Bergen, Einar Grieg. The episode premiered as a part of a performative lecture on a bike ride from Kunsthall 3,14 to the suburbs of Fyllingsdalen. The tunnel to Fyllingsdalen is the longest cycle and pedestrian tunnel in the world. This episode is experimental and contains a collage of sounds and voices.
EPISODE 3: 2023
Discussing the exhibition "Law of the Land" and the painting series "Missing and Murdered Indigenous People" and "The Remains, Arizona" with the Irish artist Brian Maguire. A talk about the violence against indigenous peoples and immigrants unfolding in the American West. How can art function as resistance and a way to fight against injustice? Painting as an act of resistance.
EPISODE 2: 2023
Kunsthall 3,14 is in dialogue with Chris Duckett, the founder of Human
Rights Art Foundation. Duckett has worked with human rights issues over
20 years, and he played a key role in introducing the Irish artist Brian
Maguire’s painting series «Missing and Murdered Indigenous People» to
Kunsthall 3,14. The episode follows up a series of exhibitions, talks
and seminars on resistance and solidarity.
EPISODE 1: 2023
Where is the intersection between visual art and performing arts, and what happens when you mix in the horror genre? In this episode, Kunsthall 3,14 talks with visual artist Søren Thilo Funder and writer Ida Lødemel Tvedt about the exhibition "Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism". The exhibition, which was shown at Kunsthall 3.14 in the spring of 2023, was part of Funder's PhD project at KMD.